Pretense vs. Pretext

Pretensenoun

(US) A false or hypocritical profession

Pretensenoun

Intention or purpose not real but professed.

Pretensenoun

An unsupported claim made or implied.

Pretensenoun

An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

Pretensenoun

The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.

Pretensenoun

The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Cæsar's death.

Pretensenoun

That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.

Pretensenoun

Intention; design.

Pretensenoun

the act of giving a false appearance;

Pretensenoun

pretending with intention to deceive

Pretensenoun

imaginative intellectual play

Pretensenoun

a false or unsupportable quality

Pretensenoun

an artful or simulated semblance;

Pretextnoun

A false, contrived, or assumed purpose or reason; a pretense.

Pretextverb

To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.

Pretextnoun

Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.

Pretextnoun

something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason

Pretextnoun

an artful or simulated semblance;

Pretextnoun

a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason

Pretext

A pretext (adj: pretextual) is an excuse to do something or say something that is not accurate. Pretexts may be based on a half-truth or developed in the context of a misleading fabrication.